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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22108 RCAF
    Construction Number:10773
    Last Civil Registration:N5215R
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22108 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, Wyoming

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119F.

    17 January 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22108.

    Converted to a C-119G.

    13 September 1967

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    By October 1971

    Assigned to Saskatoon Air Base for storage.

    October 1971

    To Aircraft International Associates, Omaha, NE with new c/r N5215R.

    From October 1971 to 1976

    Withdrawn from use.
    Open storage, unconverted, at Lincoln, NE.

    8 January 1976

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N5215R.

    1976

    Based at Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    From 1976 to 1991

    Open Storage at Greybull.

    From By 1992 to By 1994

    Restored.

    By 1994

    Operated as fire service #137.

    September 1994


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Greybull/Wyoming (GEY) in September 1994

    To Battle Mountain Air Museum, Lander County Airport, Battle Mountain, NV.
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    By September 1997

    Markings Applied: 06, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE

    13 September 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 December 1998

    To unknown owner with c/r N5215R.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    29 July 2006

    To The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    Markings Applied: T136

    19 August 2013

    Civil registration, N5215R, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Now with the Museum of Aerial Firefighting
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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